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This article traces elements of the learning of a doctoral student. It concerns attempts to bridge a number of gaps between supervisor and student in the process of studying for a PhD. In particular, it portrays differences in culture, gender, family, age, and experience and how those differences influenced the thinking of the student. A layered discourse of readings, misreadings, and rereadings is developed, drawing on the substantive literature on 'lone motherhood', on studies of doctoral supervision, and on anthropological insights into the nature of cultural differences. It is a case study in finding the 'missing' (or not yet known) person who is the lone mother and the lone researcher who 'reveals' herself to herself through interaction with her supervisors. The supervisors are also 'rewritten' in their situated self-understandings during this process.

This essay examines strategies to counter the threat of lone wolf terrorism. Lone wolves implement a tactical approach dubbed 'leaderless resistance,' which has become popular in several extremist subcultures. Although most episodes of lone wolf terrorism have not been highly destructive, there are notable exceptions that have claimed a substantial number of victims. The lone wolf trend should be contextualized in the evolution of conflict and strategy in which smaller and smaller entities figure prominently. Elements of the counterinsurgency doctrine can be applied to lone wolf terrorism. A comprehensive counterterrorism strategy must prepare for the prospect of lone wolf terrorism because of the increasing number of small-scale attacks, the large number of soft targets in contemporary society, and the potential damage that individuals can cause with the use of weapons of mass destruction. Adapted from the source document.

Title Page -- Introduction -- About the Editors -- Contents -- The Threat of Lone Actors' Terrorism -- Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat -- The Terror Next Door: A Security Analysis of the Escalating Threat of Lone Wolf Terrorists -- Gen-T. Terrorist Infosphere and i-Volution of Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Biological and Chemical Agents in the Hands of Lone Actors - A Different View -- Lone Operator Cyberterrorism from the Perspective of a Hacker -- Case Studies -- Major Nisan Malik Hasan, Terrorist or Criminal? -- The Radicalization of American Lone Wolves in Real/Reel Worlds: Strategically Mapping the Role of the Internet, and Beyond, in the Cases of Colleen LaRose (Jihad Jane) and the Tsarnaev Brothers (the Boston Marathon Bombers) -- Countering and Responding to the Threat -- Comparative Analysis of Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: New Foresight Approaches to Counterinsurgency Operations with Special Focus on Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Center for Radicalization Prevention: A Model of Government Response to "Lone-Wolf" Terrorist Assaults -- Medical Response to Lone Actor Incidents -- Lone Actors: Challenges and Opportunities for Countering Violent Extremism -- The War on Islamism -- Legal and Ethical Aspects -- Lone Actors - Ethical and Legal Considerations -- Legal Responses to Lone Wolf Terrorism -- Foresight and Policy Aspects -- European Union's Counter-Terrorism Policy and the Problem of Lone Actors -- A Lone Wolf Visionario in the American Midwest -- The Need for Integrated Municipal Planning for Rail Security the Jerusalem Light Rail Project -- Possible Evolution of Lone Wolf and SIMAD Terrorism -- Lone Wolves and Black Sheep in the Modern Urban Jungle - Loneliness as a Source for Terror Threats in Modern Cities -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Intro -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. DISCOURSE, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION -- 1. Mothering in Dystopia -- 2. Do Two a Family Make? -- 3. Every Child Needs a Father -- 4. Courageous Mothering -- II. THE EXPERIENTIAL -- 5. Single Motherhood -- 6. Single Mother Adoption -- 7. Great Lakes to Great Walls -- 8. The Lone Ranger -- 9. Single Lesbian1 Mothers2 -- III. POLICY, RESISTANCE, AND ACTIVISM -- 10. Historicizing the Marginalization of Single Mothers -- 11. Single-Parent Families, Mother-Led Households, and Well-Being -- 12. One-Parent Families in Spain -- 13. Escaping a Life of Violence? Migrant Mother-Families in Germany -- 14. I Play, Therefore, I Am -- 15. Scripting Stories of Resistance -- 16. Single Mothers' Activism against Poverty Governance in the U.S. Child Welfare System -- About the Contributors.